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10 hills in Colorado, most of them run by the state

Sledding Hills in Colorado: Every One an Agency Names

Every hill below was named for sledding by the Colorado agency that runs it, on a page linked beside it. What it costs, whether it runs tubing, a tow or lights, and the agency's own words.

10
Hills a public agency names
in 9 towns
The state
Most of them named by
0 local, 8 state, 2 national forest
10
That print no charge
Keep Colorado Wild Pass may be needed to park
0 / 0 / 0
Tubing, tow or lights
1 publish hours, 0 a conditions page
The answer

Whose website to open first in Colorado

Colorado has 10 hills that a public agency has named for sledding in writing. Of those, 8 are run by the state, 2 by a national forest.

  • State park or forest: 8
  • National forest: 2
  • Colorado is one of the states where the park system itself does most of the naming, so the state park pages are the ones worth opening first.
  • No Colorado hill below prints a charge for sledding on it.
  • Colorado sells a Keep Colorado Wild Pass, and where one is required it is a parking permit rather than a charge for the hill.
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Grouped by who named it

All 10 Colorado hills

Each card opens with the agency’s own words, because that sentence is the reason the hill is on the page. Everything under it is an attribute the same agency published on the same page. Where an agency adds guidance of its own, it is quoted whole and nothing is added to it.

Named by the state8 hills

Named by a national forest2 hills

Lake Isabel Cabin

National forest

Lake Isabel Recreation Area, Pike and San Isabel National Forests. Lake Isabel Recreation Area, Pike and San Isabel National Forests. Run by Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, USDA Forest Service

Sledding/Tubing
Lake Isabel Cabin, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, USDA Forest Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Lake Isabel Cabin, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, USDA Forest Service

Cost and parking

What sledding costs in Colorado

No Colorado hill below prints a charge for sledding on it. Nationally 140 of the 202 hills print no charge at all, and the ones that do are nearly always the two things that cost an agency money to run: a tubing operation that rents the tube, and a tow that carries you back up.

Colorado sells a Keep Colorado Wild Pass, and where one is required it is a parking permit rather than a charge for the hill. That distinction matters at the gate: the permit is sold for the plowed lot rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require one and still publish that the sledding itself is free.

A yellow road grader with tyre chains clearing deep snow from a forest car park beside a small concrete restroom building carrying a green permit required sign, under a low grey sky with heavily laden conifers behind
What a winter parking permit buys. Nineteen states sell one, and on almost every hill that needs it the money is for the lot being graded here rather than for the slope, which is why a state can require a permit and still print that the sledding itself is free. The sign on the building is the whole transaction, and it is posted at the entrance rather than at the hill. “Plowing the Sno-Park on OR 58”, OregonDOT, CC BY 2.0

Colorado sledding questions

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Sledding hills in other states

Colorado first snow datesWhen the first measurable snow has historically arrived, which is when a hill starts to be worth the drive.Colorado snowpackHow much snow is actually on the ground right now, from the automated stations that measure it.Colorado plow trackerWhether the road to the hill has been plowed, from the state that plows it.Colorado cross country skiingThe groomed trail systems, which is what most state agencies publish instead of sledding.

Colorado read September 23, 2026 from the agency pages linked beside each hill. Hours, fees and winter parking permit prices are set season by season and a hill opens on snow rather than on a date, so the agency page linked beside each one is the thing that governs on the day. Every state is on the sledding hills hub.